Garrison brings 25 years of semiconductor manufacturing experience to support Lawrence’s capacity expansion.
Lawrence Semiconductor announced that Don Garrison has joined as general manager and chief operating officer. Garrison reports to chief executive officer Ali Torabi and leads manufacturing, engineering, quality and customer delivery as the company expands capacity to meet growing demand from photonics, sensing, quantum computing and defense customers.
As a merchant epitaxy foundry, Lawrence manufactures the engineered layers that customers use as starting material for advanced microelectronic, photonic and sensing devices. Its portfolio includes specialized silicon, germanium, silicon-germanium (SiGe), germanium-tin (GeSn) and isotopically enriched silicon-28 epitaxial materials for photonics, sensing, quantum computing, defense and other advanced semiconductor applications. Lawrence is the only merchant source in the United States for production GeSn and silicon-28 epitaxy and one of very few in the world.
Garrison brings more than 25 years of semiconductor manufacturing leadership. He most recently served as Vice President of Global Operations for the Semiconductor Business Unit at Littelfuse, directing manufacturing, engineering and supply chain across eight fabrication, assembly and test sites and an organization of more than 2,500 people.
Previously he was director of Fab Operations at NXP Semiconductors in Chandler, Arizona, and led manufacturing excellence initiatives at GlobalFoundries during a high-growth factory startup. Earlier he spent more than a decade at Intel Corporation in technical and manufacturing roles. He has led epitaxial deposition operations directly at multiple companies and lives in the Phoenix area.
Lawrence operates a Class 100 cleanroom in Tempe with 14 epitaxial reactors running around the clock. The company is ISO 9001:2015 certified, is certified under the Department of Defense Joint Certification Program and is implementing IATF 16949 to support automotive and high-reliability production programs.
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